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A Dynamic Defensive Driving ('3D') Assessment takes an incredibly accurate 'photo' of the depth and breadth of a driver's ability to avoid others' collisions as well as their own. It uses a clear, completely understandable, accurate, detailed and compressed A4 page to record in writing the nature of driving skill displayed. Streetscapes used in 3D Assessments offer the need for depth as well as breadth of driving skill. 3D Assessment sessions have 4 parts: 'setting a perspective', an extensive 'warm-up' (incorporating 3 point turns, reverse parallal parking, roundabouts, heavy traffic and hazards), the Assessment itself and the feedback. As a guide to RMS Driving Test performance, it is unmatched.

Dynamic Defensive Driving takes its name from two particular techniques underwriting all low-risk driving – the need to use energy to balance opposing forces and the need to avoid potential collisions – others’ as well as one’s own. It is made up of four accumulating layers... interaction with: (1) the car through its controls (e.g. steering wheel) and facilities (e.g. mirrors) (2) specific streetscape features and areas (e.g. crests, bends and intersections) (3) mobile elements of traffic flows (e.g. other cars, trucks, emergency service vehicles) (4) potentially mobile/hazardous entities (e.g. children, cyclists, bushes) Within each layer lies a number of ‘driver operations’, the more complex of which (like the above layers) require competence in their component simpler parts. Layer 1 implies the need for a minimum of surrounding traffic, layer 2 suggests a light traffic density, layer 3 a moderate traffic density and layer 4 a heavy and diverse traffic density. This strategic view maximises licence applicants’ self-reliance from the very beginning – the most efficient way to address and integrate the most important difference between a provisional and a learner’s licence: the need for no assistance.